Susan Boynton

Medievalist Susan Boynton is Professor of Music at Columbia University. She writes on medieval monastic liturgy and music, well as music and childhood, musical iconography, troubadour song, and sacred drama. Boynton has degrees from Yale University in music and in medieval studies, and a Ph.D. in musicology from Brandeis University. Her award-winning monographs are Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain (2011) and Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125 (2006). Boynton has coedited five books, most recently Resounding Images: Medieval Intersections of Art, Music, and Sound, with Diane J. Reilly (2015).